76 RUMINANTS AND THEIB DISTRIBUTION. 



that tliey 3'ielcled the only mammalian fcjod jjeruiitted to 

 the Hebrew, and this pre-eminence as a source of food has 

 scarcely decreased to the present day. They are, moreover, 



Kiu. 2.J. — J^kL-U'tu)! of I'le Extinct Iri^li Dlht— a. tvpiral K.imiuaut. 



now ihe dominant typo <if larger mainin.ils, as witness the 

 herds of bis.m wliicli lately roamed over the American 



